Chapter 329: Who Are The Culprits? (1/2)

Xukong's words made the cogs in Lin Mu's brain turn and everything started to link up; the culprits hiding in caves, them disappearing easily, the kidnapping of the mercenaries, the presences of caves everywhere in the region of which nearly no one seemed to have knowledge of.

Lin Mu then looked at all the runes that had been carved into the walls and realized that all of this should have been ancient and have been exiting here for countless years. He then realized one of the most important things.

It seemed too suspicious that barely anyone knew about the caves. At least the people who took care of the wells in the city should have known of them, and if they knew then normal people should have found out about it as well.

A serious expression appeared on Lin Mu's face as his train of thought progressed. He knew from the kind of thick sludge that had been formed, the quantity of blood that was originally present must have been quite large. He checked the depth of the sludge pool and was even more shocked.

”Senior the sludge pool, it's more than fifty meters deep.” Lin Mu spoke.

Now even Xukong was getting worried about this, as he understood the amount of blood required to fill such a large pool would not be easily obtained.

”Lin Mu, I don't think this is all blood,” Xukong said.

”It's not? Then what it is?” Lin Mu asked.

”Use the method I tell you and test it out yourself,” Xukong replied.

He then gave Lin Mu a small technique which was actually part of the refinement skills. Lin Mu didn't have a hard time in learning it, as a lot of the steps were similar to those he used for the refinement of the Bloodline of the Trunk Faced Cow.

Lin Mu used his spirit sense and created a few runes in the air. He formed a few seals with his hands and a small amount of sludge came floating up from the pool. It entered the formation which the runes had formed and stirred before turning to dust and dissipating.

But after this, the runes that constituted the formation also changed and then entered Lin Mu's head. He closed his eyes, and a troubled expression appeared on his face.

”You were right, senior. This isn't just blood, but entire bodies mixed with them. There is not only human blood in it, but also a lot of beast blood. In fact, the majority of it constitutes of beast blood.” Lin Mu informed.

”Hmm, as I thought. They are using a certain refinement technique to refine the corpses and blood in a certain ratio to prepare blood essence rich fluid. They absorb the blood essence while discarding the rest as a waste.” Xukong explained.